Li Mingxun spitted out the tea from his mouth and said, "I heard that Lord Shen is a good official who is loyal and dedicated, and is still highly valued now."

The old man said, "Good official? Good officials will not do bad things anymore. Judging from the dress of several people, they should be Haike'er. You should know that Chen Tingyang wrote to the court to advocate the shipping of grain and military rations by sea."

Li Mingxun nodded slightly and said, "Of course I know, but this should be a good thing for you. If the court really focuses on shipping, it will not only reduce losses and supplement national benefits, but also make a big profit for your shipbuilding business in Jiangyin."

"It's a good market. If you can starve to death, your ancestors have accumulated virtue." The man who bought the cake put the cake on the table and said angrily.

Seeing that Li Mingxun was puzzled, the man said, "Look at me, before Chen Tingyang wrote a letter, I worked in the Luyang Boathouse. Not only did I eat enough every month, but I could also save some money. If it weren't for him, Chen Tingyang, I would have married a wife now, but he gave a memorial and made a good reputation. The boathouses along the river were all ruined. Now I have to rely on my old capital. Don't talk about my wife, I don't know if I can spend the New Year."

Lee Mingxunyue didn't understand and asked, "How could this happen?"

The man said: "You have to take a ship for shipping. The official shipyards in Nanjing have long been declining. The construction of the weekly buildings cannot be completed. How can they be able to build new ships? If they really do shipping, it will probably be built by private shipyards, and each shipyard will share them. There are three or five small factories and more than a dozen large factories. The court's work has always been to give little money. It is urgent. Don't talk about making money. If you don't lose money, it is my ancestors who have shown up. Now, when I heard that the court might build ships, all shipyards were dismantling ship platforms and filling in docks and disbanding the peddlers, for fear of dividing more ships. Those who bought ships and set up ships knew that they would not get the ships for a while. Those who gave the deposit thought they were unlucky, and those who didn't give it were found elsewhere. They built ships in Jiangyin well, and the four or five thousand people's business was ruined."

Li Mingxun couldn't help but sympathize with these boat shops. Although Chen Tingyang is no wonder, it should be blamed for the court, but it has been like this for hundreds of years, and people have to vent their anger at the people they can find.

"Where are those owners of the shipyard?" Ah Hai asked.

The man said, "Hehe, the rich went to manage some yamen, the poor left and hid. The hardest thing is that we craftsmen and friends, without the boat shop, we will lose our lives, and we don't know how to live."

"What do you call this brother? What business did you do in the boat shop before?" Li Mingxun asked.

The man didn't know what Li Mingxun meant, and was still hesitating. The old man suddenly grabbed his son's hand, revealing his rough palms and huge knuckles, and said, "My son is an old hand-made wooden workshop, and he has dealt with all kinds of ship materials. I heard that you have a Guangdong accent. Could it be that Guangdong came to recruit craftsmen? Recruit him, he will definitely do it!"

Li Mingxun smiled and asked, "If I were from Guangdong, would you be willing to follow me? If you go far, it would be better than the local ones in the hometown."

The old man said: "What is the local area, what is the foreign country, it's good to be alive. A few distinguished guests may not know that many people nearby have lost their livelihoods and have all gone to the boat to be sailors, and many of them have died outside."

"Some of the brave ones went to Zhoushan to be pirates. In our village..." The man muttered, but his father kicked him in the butt, and realized that he had said something he shouldn't have said.

"What a pity, we are not here to recruit ship workers, we are here to buy ships." Li Mingxun said with a smile.

In fact, Li Mingxun has always wanted to develop his shipbuilding industry in Taiwan. His ultimate goal is to build warships like the Tiger Shark, but he also knew that this kind of thing was too urgent and he had to take it slowly. At least even if all the shipwrecks in Jiangyin were removed, they would not know how to build the French style of Galen ships. After all, it was a warship that was completely different from all kinds of ships in the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, he still wanted to recruit some craftsmen, but he urgently needed the sea boat to transport the ordered cotton cloth, porcelain and grain back. 20,000 stones of grain were not something that could be transported away by a Yongjin Ship.

In my heart, Li Mingxun had already thought about building a ship first, gathering a group of people, and then finding a way to get it to Taiwan.

However, Li Mingxun's words disappointed the father and son of the teahouse. Ah Hai smiled and said, "It's the first time that the two of you have opened this teahouse."

"What do you mean? I look down on me and my father?" The man immediately looked angry.

Ah Hai smiled and said, "You can't do business at first sight. My master wants to buy a boat. Even if you only buy one, it will be a deal worth hundreds of taels of silver. If you can find a ship owner and introduce the deal to him, you can still get three or five taels of straw sandals."

The man was stunned and then grinned: "You said so much, and I knew where my boss's house was. Go find him here."

But Ah Hai shouted: "Slow down!"

The man was so scared that he almost fell down by this throat. When he turned around, he saw Ahai throwing a piece of scattered silver. Ahai said, "This is the straw sandal money I gave you. After I went there, I will tell your boss and tell him that my shopkeeper knew the person on the official's face. It would be okay if he built a ship for us. Do you understand?"

The man went happily. In less than half an hour, he brought a fat man over. The fat man was over thirty years old. His face was filled with smiles. His loose face and thick dark circles made him not look so healthy. I think the storm caused by Shen Tingyang inadvertently made him not have a good time. The fat man introduced himself, and that was Qian Jin, the owner of the Traveling Shipyard.

According to Qian Jin, his foreign shipyard is the best among the five large shipyards in Jiangyin. The sand ships he built are of the best quality. They can run far away from the sea, withstand wind and waves, and can last for twenty or thirty years. These half-truth and half-false words have begun to lay the groundwork for a while. Li Mingxun sat there and let him speak with a spit on his lips. He felt that this guy must be a chatterbox, but his words are true and false, but there is some ability of an orator.

"Hey, this time I met a wealthy man like you. It was really a blessing for our traveling to the foreign shipyard. It was my Qian Jin's blessing. My father originally named me this name to let me inherit the shipyard and have money and spend it, but I didn't expect that I would end up in such a field. The money was really tight!" Qian Jin said a lot, but he had no intention of stopping.

Li Mingxun was finally worn out and slapped a bronze medal on the table. Qian Jin picked it up and saw that the character Cheng was engraved on it. It was not something that everyone could use. It was the token of Cheng Bi of Jiangyin Fu and Hui Shang. Qian Jin naturally knew that the great merchant was very good at hand, but he didn't understand what Li Mingxun meant, whether he wanted to lower the price or had other conspiracies.

Then, a jade pendant was placed in front of Qian Jin, causing fat meat to run around on his face. This jade pendant represents the Shachuan Gang, which is his old customer, and it is an existence that cannot be provoked. Finally, there was a post. Although it was only a piece of paper three feet wide, it was indeed heavier than Mount Tai in Qian Jin. He held the paper, and beads of sweat as big as beans rolled down. In November, mist appeared on his forehead. He couldn't resist the pressure and knelt on the ground with a sad face.

"This master, the villain is really blind and just wants the master to give the villain's family a way out." Qian Jin cried and begged.

However, Li Mingxun took the three treasures and said, "Why don't I give you a way out? I'm buying a boat from you."

"No, no, no, master doesn't need to buy it. If you want any boat, the villain will give you one for free. Use the best wood and hire the most skilled handle." Qian Jin said quickly, just about to kowtow.

Li Mingxun was shocked by him, of course, not really wanting to bully this guy, but wanted him to tell the truth. He asked: "Qian Jin, I'll ask you, how long does it take to build four sea-walked sand boats with a load of 5,000 stone?"

Qian Jin wiped his nose and said, "About three months."

"Forty days." Li Mingxun said without hesitation regardless of Qian Jin's answer. He didn't want to celebrate the New Year in Jiangnan.

Qian Jin had not answered yet, and Li Mingxun said: "You don't have to consider other things. Whether you can do it. Things you can't solve don't mean I can't solve them!"

Qian Jin gritted his teeth and stood up and said, "Master, the villain can provide you with two four-masted sand ships with a load of 6,000 stones and two five-masted sand ships with a load of 8,000 stones within forty days."

"How to do it?" Li Mingxun asked when he saw that he was so sure.

Qian Jin said: "The shipyard has stopped now. Four sand boats have been built in several large shipyards, but the wood is ready-made. As for the craftsmen, many locals have run away, but most of them are in the Land Temple. They have no food and clothing. They rely on the porridge shed of Master Cheng Bicheng's house. As long as they provide food, they can work. The little man still has more than 500 taels of silver to fill in, and they may be able to do it. If the master gives the little one another three hundred taels, the little one will not be able to take out four big boats in forty days and are willing to go into the cell."

Ah Hai grinned, and he suddenly realized that this guy regarded his master as a gentry master who was using the help of the government to act fiercely. But he looked like that just now.

When Li Mingxun waved his hand, the guard beside him handed a deerskin pocket. Qian Jin was happy first, and then sad. Judging from his appearance, there were only a hundred taels of silver inside. Even if he gave it to himself, he would have to pay it back. In Qian Jin's heart, Li Mingxun just took some money to get it.

Li Mingxun opened his pocket, but the golden nuggets were exposed. Qian Jin's eyes were straightened. Li Mingxun said, "These golds are worth at least 1,500 taels of silver. It is considered a fixed amount. You will be given a balance in forty days, but there is one thing. If you can't hand over the ship at that time..."

"If you want to kill and cut, Qian Jin will never say a word!" Qian Jin patted his chest and promised.

Qian Jin stood up, took out a small piece of gold from his pocket and threw it to the man, saying, "Yang Mang, don't stand stupidly, go around and call back all the people from our boat shop. There are several other boat shops, which one is better and called one. You guys, go to the Land Temple immediately to find all the people there, tell them to do forty days of work, I will give you a tael of silver and take care of the meal!"

Several people scattered, Qian Jin put the purse in his robe and said, "Shopkeeper Li, this villain has been passed down for seven generations. When he fought against Japanese pirates, he built ships for the navy. He had no skills, but he was afraid that the court would really want to ship the ship, so he would delay your construction period by then. How do you calculate it?"

Li Mingxun smiled. From later generations, he naturally knew that Chen Tingyang's advocacy of sea transportation ended in failure. The reason was very simple. The canal transportation was related to the livelihoods of millions of people along the line and ran through Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Many gentry had interests in it. With them, the emperor knew that the sea transportation was fast and the consumption was less, but he did not dare to abandon the canal and change the sea. Not to mention anything else, the hundreds of thousands of canals were a big problem.

"Don't worry, I have someone in the yamen. My Lord Shen will be the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi next year. Who dares to act rashly at this time?" Li Mingxun said with a powerful force.

Qian Jin remembered Chen Youlong’s post and said, “That’s a good relationship. I really met Enke today. Master, if you can help you talk to the yamen, don’t show off the villain, the villain will be grateful.”

Li Mingxun laughed: "This is easy to talk about. As long as you build a sand boat, I will give you an explanation, even better than this. Of course, don't be busy flattering now. This is my manager Lin He. Take him to find other ship owners, use the wood to occupy their docks. If they build half of the hull, don't shorten the money. If my reputation is ruined, I will ask you."

Qian Jin hurriedly said, "Don't worry, you will not be short, nor will you let them deceive Manager Lin. With me here, how much is worth Menqing! But you have to let Manager Lin get one of those three treasures. You are a little naughty, and you will not eat softly."

Li Mingxun naturally agreed, but he liked Qian Jin the more he was talking, but he was really thorough in his work.

Qian Jin took Lin He to the teahouse, but the old man in the teahouse sighed: "Oh, Qian Jin is so lucky. Seeing that the family is in decline and is about to be ruined, I didn't expect that the God of Wealth will fall from heaven. Tsk tsk, why don't I have such a good life?"

"How did you know that you don't have such a good life?" Li Mingxun asked with a smile.

Ah Hai also said, "Yes, my master will pay anyone who works for my master. This is not called good fortune, this is called business."

The old man grinned and asked, "Big shopkeeper, can you do such a good deal for me?"

Lee Mingxun said: "If I were toast near this dock, would you think the people from the Land Temple would come over?"

"Put porridge? Why do you want to add porridge?" The old man looked surprised.

Li Mingxun's face immediately became cold: "I want to say that I am a kind person, do you believe it?"

Seeing that Li Mingxun looked unhappy, the old man knew that he could not ask about this matter, so he patted his mouth and said, "Look at my stinky mouth, I really need to be beaten. If you shouldn't ask, we won't ask."

The old man added tea to Li Mingxun and said, "Big shopkeeper, don't say you don't give me anything, that group of people are coming too. You think that more than half of them are boat shops and friends. They go to the foreign ship shop to do their work, so their wives and children will naturally follow them. At worst, they can go back to eat porridge during the day. This is winter. The sawdust and shavings that no one wants around the boat shop are enough for them to keep warm."

After hearing this, Li Mingxun felt very reasonable. Although it does not snow in the south of the Yangtze River, it is also very cold. Heating is a big problem. Li Mingxun nodded and said, "You closed this teahouse and opened a porridge shed in the abandoned boathouse next to the Luyang boathouse. I asked the grain merchants to send all the rice and flour. At least I can't hungry them before my boat is built, but they have to work for me!"

"What kind of work do?" the old man asked carefully.

Li Mingxun said: "You are a local, I will give you silver money. During the shipbuilding, you come forward to buy oxen, seeds and iron plows, and buy three cows. I will reward you with one tael of silver. Once the seeds and iron plows are completed, I will also be rewarded. Leave the cows you bought to the families of these ship workers and let them raise them for me. I will take them away after the ship is built."

The old man thought about it and quickly said, "That relationship is good, that relationship is good."

Ah Hai took out the silver from his arms and said, "This is thirty taels, I will be here for you first. I will do it during this period of time.

Find me."
Chapter completed!